Is this the end of Aerosmith?

[Wayne LaFoy]

I believe this is the beginning of the end for Aerosmith, after almost 40 years of rocking, with Tyler's fall awhile ago. I was watching Joe Perry on CNN, he was talking about a hiatus & doing his own tour, promoting his new solo album. I don't think there will be another album or another tour, anytime soon, the way Joe was talking. Hopefully Steven Tyler can get his act together, before it's too late, but the bad boys from Boston, may never rock again sadly.

[TageRyche]

It does seem like the end is coming sooner rather than later.

[STID]

You have got to hope so. Tyler has shown a natural aptitude to fall off a stage rather than perform on one. The output in recent year has been atrocious, exemplified by the truly awful and excruciating 'Honkin on Bobo'.

Covers are done by people who cannot write music, or people bereft of ideas. It was time to call it a day a few years ago, but they have insisted on limping along.

AEROSMITH - RIP

[wayne]

Sheese-i cant believe what I just read.Just because a group puts out a cover album doesn't necessarily mean they are bereft of ideas. Aerosmith will bounce back-just wait and see.I love some of the songs on Honking on Bobo.Some of the greatest artists of all time have put out covers-sheeese where do u guys get off by writing them off?????

[TageRyche]

I wasn't complaining about the covers album myself. Just that with all the health/age related problems that seem to be cropping up lately, the band is closer to the end of their run than the beginning.

And if you saw the pic of Steven Tyler where some fan was taking a shot of him in a liquor store, the man looked like death warmed over.

[wayne]

Have u seen Mick Jagger lately?Him and Richards make Tyler look like an adolescent.
The point is that these guys are all now well into their 60's.They certainly don't do it for the money-they do it for the love of being on stage.As long as they can entertain I say let them get on with it.The Stones and Tyler etc will die on stage no doubt- what a way to go!

[Bluesman Mark]

I posted this in another thread, but it fits here too:

"I kinda got the same feeling from an article about Joe & Aerosmith that was on my MSN home page a week or so after Steven's fall & the cancellation of the tour. Joe seemed very frustrated by the delays & cancellations the tour had endured, & extremely frustrated that he & Steven hadn't sat down & written a song together in some ten years. Joe seemed annoyed with & maybe a bit tired of the way things had been going.


Maybe it's time for them to move on & try different things, though I think Joe can do without Aerosmith musically more than Steven can, & that's not a knock on Steven, just how things seem, given past histories with them. It's like Joe has said, between the time he left & he rejoined, he released three studio albums under the "Joe Perry Project" moniker, toured a lot, (including with Brad Withford), & Aerosmith released just one album & barely pieced together a single tour.

We shall see."

The bottom line is if there is a feud or a rift between Joe & Steven, & it were to become permanent, Joe would go on making music, as he has demonstrated before.

Not including the covers album, how long has it been since we got an entire album of new Aerosmith music? Eight years, since "Just Push Play" was released in 2001. We've gotten a covers album, another live album, & countless repackagings of previously released material, one of which did have two new songs on it. Steven Tyler announced on VH1 Classic Radio on September 4, 2008 that Aerosmith would enter the studio at the end of September 2008 to complete the band's next studio album, but that album wasn't even finished before yet another tour commenced, (the one that was cancelled after Steven's injury). Now, when the Black Crowes can record two entire albums of new material over five nights, live before an invited audience, why can't Aerosmith get a single album completed between September of 2008 & June of 2009, when the tour started? Has their muse vanished? or at least Steven's, as Joe has completed a solo album & a new Joe Perry Project album since 2001. I'm beginning to think the problem may be Steven.

Don't get me wrong, I love Aerosmith, but I do think the end is near for the band, at least as far as making new music & being more than a touring "greatest hits live jukebox", & Aerosmith deserves better than to be reduced to that.

Insofar as their providing merely entertainment, I'll close with a snatch of the lyrics from the late Ricky Nelson's great song "Garden Party", where he wrote & sang about being booed at an oldies show at Madison Square Garden for including some new material in among his classic hits:

"If memories were all I sang, I believe I'd rather drive a truck."

[Peter Jones]

Aerosmith stopped being an important band to me...long ago. Their live shows were the only thing that held any connection to their earlier songs and attitude. They were always good live but Joe Perry said it best on the Hookin For Bobo documentary...You scarifice your core intentions to sell out for the might dollar. to paraphase. That is what they did.

Look...they have had and continue to have lots of medical and other issues that keep them for doing what they want to but let's be honest, they are all lucky to me alive after what they went through in their career!

So I say...there is never going to be another great studio record..the tours sound less and less like the Aerosmith I love and they aren't getting another younger. So...just call it quits...enjoy your millions and take care of yourself and your families. I can live without a live Aerosmith...

Besides....I always have tons of live and bootlegged recordings to feed my Aerosmith habit!

[Wayne LaFoy]

I don't believe Aerosmith will do another album or another tour, anytime soon & the one they were working on will become a mystery, with possibly some tracks surfacing later on. The way things are going now, I don't think Joe, Brad, Tom & Joey, want anything to do with Tyler, on a personal or professional basis. Those first six albums, from their debut album to Live Bootleg, defines them in all their glory.

[THE GREEK]

WHAT HAVE THE REALLY DID LATELY?

[rockertilldeath]

Who gives a shit. They quit meaning anything after permanent vacation. Pink was about the most gag inducing piece of crap I've ever heard. Fortunately I saw them on the back in the saddle tour way back when they were actually worth caring about. the sooner they go away the better.

[rockertilldeath]

P.S. They fucking kicked ass on that show. Too many fucking therapists and bullshit. Call it a day guys while people still have at least a touch of respect.

[rockertilldeath]

P.S.S.S. The reason I say these things is because rock has to have an element of danger, uncertainty. If not it's just nicklefag, oops I mean nickleback rock. If it doesn't sound like it's about to come apart at the seams then what's the point. Feeling is everything. If you don't feel it then it ain't there. Besides, all they've been doing for the last 20 years is trying to pay off their cocaine debt from the 70's. Go away.